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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-04-04, Page 7THE AMERICAN MINERS HAVE NOW QUIT WORK But Believed That the Strike Will be of Short Duration. An and Bituminous Miners Leave by the Thousands. New York, April J. -Anthracite coal operators believe, that the stespension of work in the hara coal region which went into effect to -day will not con- tinue long and that the coining meet. ing of the .operators' vommittee and re- presentatives of the miners on April 10 in Philadelphia, will reeume it a basis of settlement. This belief is strength- eued, the operatore say, by the fact that there have been no traces -of bit- terness shown on either side and that this makes a satisfactory adjustment of difference e much easier, Just what proposition the minere will submit to the operators at the coming Philadelphia conference as a baeis of discussion, 'has not been learn- ed, but the operatont think the two points of chief iseue will be the ques- times of increased wages and recognie to of the union. Some of the opera- tors are in favor of the granting an in. ereese in wages, while one railroad company is Said to oppose a bigher in- creatie, claiming that it would wipe out las margin of profit. . The operator's say that the question Of reeognition of the union was settled for all tan° by the award of the an- thraeite cominiseion several years ago. It is reported here to -day that sever- al independent companiee had made special arangements with their men to continuo mining and that this; 'coal weula be sold to consumene at an in. ereased cost. INDIANA. MINES DESERTED. India,mtpolis, April 1. -Except for a few pumpers and other men employed to keep the property in shape the bi- tuminoue coal mines of Indiana are deserted to -day and they will remain idle until the 20,000 minerreceive no- tice that the wages eontraet, agreed to in Cleveland, lute been ratified by a re - fermium vote. Minene officials and operators of 'this, tbe llth district, of the United aline Workers of America, declare that the contract will be raeified by an almost tmaninunts art& Business in Indiana win not be ham- pered, ae, large manufacturing cell - erns have laid in aupplies of coal to lest thein for several weeks. OHIO MINERS IDLE. Columbus, Ohio, .April 1. -The 50,000 bituminous coal miners in the southern arta eager mining districts of Ohio are idle ,to -day. Although the day is a holiday in celebration of eight hour day, the men will not return to work vetil the completion, of the count in the referendum, vote, erhkaa will not be before, April 15, according to G. W. Savage, Ohio Secretary of the United lfine Worker. Emergemey men were left in the mines, however, to pre, vent damage by water. ALSO IN MICHIGAN. Detroit, 'alich.'April 1.--Bituminone coal miners- to the number of about 3,000 are idle in Michigan to -day, and will remain out of the working pending the ratification of the new wage agree- IVIOTOR SHIPS Steamships Will Soon be a Thing of the Past, Loudon, March 31. -Sir Marcus Sam. the oil magneto, took _part yester- day in the discussion before the Institte tion of Naval Architects on the achieve. silent of the motor ship Selandia, which is equipped with the Diesel gas engine. With the oil -fuel engines in existence ; the fact was demonstrated, Sir Mamas ! said, that those who went on building ' steam engines with the knowledge now afforded were only courting disaster. He aesnred his hearers that his eompaey. which pesseesed seventy VeSSPIS, would never build another steamship. 3:e himself, he seil„was absolutely • -certain that engines of the Diesel type woold take the place of steam, end his own eompitneds Vulettna had shown that the Consumption of oil was as one to five when -compared with coal, The question of oil supplies, Sir Mar- eus ridded, was undoubtedly a grave oue, but there were enormous supplies await- ing development in addition to the ems - plies already in existence, He inganeed Borneo, for example, and added that the Mexican supplies were by no meane fully developed, while great hopes were also entertained of the succesful develop- ment of the Egyptian oil fields. ;another speaker stated that he had found that the Diesel engine e 'worked so Smoothly and well that the engineer had practically nothing to do, and touid isit down ana reaa booka Admiral Sir Gerard Noel assured the meeting that the Royal navy cordially welcomea tits advent of the Diesed en- gine, principally on the ground of ecom omyin fuel. He was delighted to hear Sir Marcus Samuel say that the stip. ply of oil was praetieally unlimited. The neat step would be to get that oil stored in this tountry, a. matter width tailed for very serione Consideration. * BOUGHT RAILWAY. Zateeville, Obio, AOril 1. -The Ohio River & Western Railroad, extending from Zanesville to Bellaire, whielt was lately aequirea by George S. Jones, of Toledo, and other eapitatiste, has been purchased by the Penneylvania Relive:0 Company at it cost of $3,000,000, stecord- ing to an announeement of the Ohio River &a Western offitiale here. The transfer its saki to boarish, elso eonsider- able coal rights in Belmont eonnty.Ohio. AUTHOR DEAD. pwa(n, Germany, April L -Karl aray, the welattnown writer M andian sled root:meg for Wye, died It eee to-dey it Ids 70th year. 11th ttaneleted how etre& of IStori o* from the Arabian, Tark- Hi, Pete -len and Caineee, ani wrote Many Merles dealiug with the T�ian of the far west. molt. At a number of the mines there are Joeal grievances to be adjusted and the men announce they will take ad -- vantage of the suspension to lave their claims settled. EIGHT-HOUR DAY. Philadelphia, April 1.-"Eight-hout (lay" waa observed by tire anthracite mine worker e to -day, and there was a complete Aut.-down throughout „, the Tiara coal regions. About 175,000 teen are idle. Some years ago the union biturninone miners in the wed won an eight-hour day, and ever slue it had been the euetom to observe that. Victory or. April 1, the day the eight-hour agree- ment went into effeet. The anthracite 'eine workeie have been contendang for similar work day for ten years bat the best they have seemed thue ler is a reduction from ten to nine hours a day, Here and there in other year's. there has been some work done on "eight-hour day" in the hard coal regions, but to- day there was a. complete susoensiou because of the order issued last week by the officers of the United Mine Worker. The real test as to whether the order will be fully obeyed will come to -morrow morning, when the eilliery whistlea blow. Trie union leaders ex- preee coofidence in a complete suspen- eion until a new agreement is entered into by the inen and operators. Report e from different parte of the enthrvaite field &tow that ail engineers, pump i.nen, stable men and °there neces- sary for the preservation of mine pro- perty reported for duty. Many of the companio are taking advantage of the idleness to make mach needed repairs, c\Vork throughout the winter and early ernine has been steady because of the great° demand for fuel, and there has been no (hence to catch up with repair work. WYOMING ALSO IDLE, Wilkesbanre, Pa., April 1. --In cempla :ewe with the order of President White, of the United aline Workers, the anthra- cite minere of the 'Wyoming region did not report for work to -day, and all the collieries are idle. The railroad com- panies axe bib:Ty moving coal from the siding; adjoining the mines. This will furnish employment for the. mile -oast crews for several days, and then they will be idle. President White and the executive boar& of the three anthracite dietricts will hold a meeting here to outline plans previous to the conference with the opers atore in Philitelelphia. It can be (odd that the original demands of the union mine workers will be presented. 40,000 OUT. Chicago ,April 1. -Forty thousand miners of bitundoous coal in Illinois - are idle to -day as a result of the ex- piration of the wage scale agreement at midnight Sunday. The 250 mines are Ghat down ana will continue rlosed until members of the United Mine 'Workers of America have had an op- portunity to cast a referendum vote on the tentative agreement and new wage Sale approved by the Illinois operators and the miners. FAVOR UNION Vo:e of Quarterly Official Boards of 548 Churches. Methodist Quarterly Offieial. Boards to the number of 548 out of a total of 2,000 have .paseed upon Church unicn, Only twenty fire voted against. total vote of theme 'boas* in Forfi 40o. oo ma 60 .. Aeainee • • • I • • • • • Against .. .. , . , . , ... Or 7 to I in favor. Total vote by congregatiOne te date: For .. ... aaaa 10 0 • I . 13,895 Against ... • 4 • • 4 1 0 • V I 1,890 The full is: 8,024 3,213 7,411 afajority „ 4... Or 7 to I ia favor. Total vote to date of 50 of the 70 Presbyteries ie as follows: CHURCH UNION, A DAZZLER Diamond-StuddedShoesand $50,0D0 Wardrobe, New York, Mareb. 31.-----4.nnottneing that to -morrow elle will glitter edema' Fifth avenue in her diamondestudded elms, atm C. 11. Anthony, nf alueele, Ind., ohm rentarkable $50,000 wardrobe has been the sensation of Washingtoa Iiigilt. throughout the wintert arrived in New York en the Congreetnonal Limited to - "I feel store" .said Mrs. Anthony, qbett, me, Easter hat wiU tostouieh the avenue. I have given a great deal of thought to this most beautiful eonfeetion, and I do not feel that I should deeeribe it in advance. "I have Ineome a suffragette," said aft's, Anthony, "and you may say that at the very first chance I shall go to the polls in my diamond -heels end very beg clothee and cast my ballot. "Men will be glad to have women vote if they dressed their prettiest when they go to the polio. Cannot you int- agine an election day parade of gorgeous gowns and hats on the way to the American ballot?" e.".-4•10-110"* """"."'"'"' "PERFECT PURITY" U. S Superior Court Defines Duties of Wife. Husband and Wife Should Not Live Apart. Philadelphia, Metall 30.-A pre -nuptial vow hy a young couple to pass the re- mainder of their livoin "perfe,ct purity" was the baeis for the unusual e.ondition which hae been disposed of by a decision by Judge Orlady, of the superior court, reversing the ruling of Judge lateen], lir common pleas court No. 1. After living togethea for fourteen years in lawful wedlock, without the . marriage having been commentated, Clement Remington H. Cunningham and hie wife, Irene Ds. separated, and she began equity pro. ceedinge against her husband for a suit - Able allowance for her support, Jukes! Magill awarded the wife $100 a month, In justification of his net ia leaving hie wile the hueband complained that she had. abeolutely refused to fulfill her marital duties, and he also complained of her treatment of him. In defence of her trange aetions, Mre. Cunningham explained that about a year befo-re their marriage she and Mr. Clunnineham had knelt down together in the parlor, and, taking God as their witness, had vowed to live the rest of their lives in "perfect purity." Judge ftdc' Orlady, in reversing the deci- eion of the court below and. diemisaing the wife's uit, said: "It is not the policy of the law to en- courage the living apart of lmsband and. wife, while the marital relation exists in force, After the marriage cootratt is en- tered into the rights, duties and obliga- tions of the parties are fixed by law. The relation ie. said to be the Parent and not the child of civil soeiety, reprinted and proscribed by law, and endowed with civil consequences. It is more than a ()Nil contract, it is an institution of the state. It supersedes all other contracts between the parties, in relation th it and with certain exceptions it is incon- sistent with the power to snake new ones. Our whole social system is found- ed on the theory of husband and. wife living together as cuch. "Mrs. Cunningham does not seek a sev- erance of the contract of paarriage, but asserts it, to compel her husband to maintain her while iiving apart from him. She ireforprets her duty in a way that is oppoeed to universal law, the dictates of humanity and public polleye and this after repeated refusals- to live inti home of his own making. She at- tempts to read into the marriage con- tract a clause which would Practically annul it,. and defeat its purpose as a civil institution, and this,solely on Recount of an unnatural and pecailiar view of what constitetee purity of the marital relations and the conjugal dutiet of a wiiele:' Twhole question may be finally disposed in the eettlement of a suit for divorce brought by the busbana and now pending in common pleas court No. 3. FOR KNOX COLLEGE 12,005 Strathcona to Give $25,000 for New Building. For. Already reported , -113,292 Eamouton 1,890 doorroor•••••.... Total .., 113,123 elealnet. Aiready reisorted •*4 v 49,775 Elmonton • 533 Total - lorvorro...muo•••• , 50,308 0.••••••••,••••......0 For ...... ..114,123 Ageing 50,308 Majority „.. 63,a15 BASIS Or taarION. For . r• 60 • V 76,34/ Against • • . 33,810 Majority . „ 42,531 Votes rod to date .. -104,431 Total membership _ 287,944 FOUND DEAD English Girl Meets Death at Winnipeg. 'Winnipeg, Ala% lattreh 31. ---The mys- tery eurrounding the appearitnee of Grace Bike, the 24-yettreitti lengaelt ten'l who had been gene from her home, 515 Lendeale street, Sinee Filtley 'after- noon, itae been (derived ep by the itis - of her body in the scrub of a eOntli end subelivielon. She sene Stile f jeet to melanebolia „end doubtleet wan - tiered (may eriti fell ti vietim to expo - Imre in the unn.-Aull storm of Fraley night. Piller() will be *no inquest. De - I-CP,100.1 ceme with her family nein ilanne llity, latglani,1 utoeths no, (Ina bad ftetoit as organist tif Marytend Met ltediet "I will contribute$25,000 to eom- plete the $400,000 to be raised by subscription for new buildings for lanox College. "Stretheona." Toronto, April 1. -Principal Gandier, speaking at St. James' Square Church yeeterday forenoon, announced that he had received the above cablegram from Lord Strathcona last week. This contribution from the Canadian High Commissioner leaves only $75,000 to be subscribed. The canvass in To- ronto will be eompleted at once, and a number of congregations elsewhere will then be visited, that the work may be finished at an early date. This programme was explained by the principal, who expreseed his gratifica- tion not only at the response to the ap- peel for new buildinge, but ale° at the ineteased number of students who are enrollea for the ministry. The work on the foundations for the new buildings fronting on the Univer- eity lawn :Ina extending through to St. George street, has already been begun and building operations will be pushed forward Without delay. Already tenders have been called for and eontraete wil SOOn be let. The new buildings, it is ex- peeted, will be ready for oecupetion within two yeaas. They will present maguifieent appearance and will be eons - plate in every detail; Lord Stratheoutee gift bee assured the inuaediate :success; of the renvass. G c, T. R. SWITCHMEN. Detroit, April 1.---A epeoial to the De- troit News front Durand, Mich., Myst A. general ttike leas been declerea by the ewitehmen of the Grand Trank Rail- road, to go into effeet at a o'cloek thie Morning, unteee the company witiolteave its order to take the third mart from the ewith train*. The iitt.1611 Wit8 I eecretly taken yeeterday, arid the men are now welting- \void from the griev- :Mee Contrratice at preeent ittMontreal. CONN SCUT LOST THE RACE fallrlee'...0•••••••• 41.41 .1r3C W. D. HAYWOOD JUDGE'S ADVICE Bridgeport Socialists Want to liave Min Expelled. Denver, April 1. Charges against WaS 150 Miles From South Haywood, Sovialiet leetarer and former secretary of the Western Pole on Jan. a. Asloratiou of 'Mine Workers, Isere filled yesterday "s3'). Vie Denver orgatezation iThe Terra Nova Arrives at New Zealand. Scott to Remain Another Year -London Sorry 'Wellington, New Zealand, March '31. - Captain Robert F. Scott's vessel, Terra Nava, which carried the British expe- ditioa to the antarctic, has arrived at Akarore a harbor an Ilan's& peninsula, New Zealand, but hies not brought back Captain Scott or the members of his ex- pedition. The commander of Terra Nova brought; instead the following brief mes- sage from Scott: "I am remaining- in the autaretie for another winter in order to continue and complete my work." • The latest news sent back by Captain Scott to tus beer) at afcMuedo Sound, .showed that on January 3 he lutd reach - ea a point 150 ulnae from the South Pole and Wail still advancing. It was dee: that lied the explorer de- layed sending back notificatiou of his progress until he actually reached. the Pole, news front him could not have been received by the Terra Nova 1)0R:ire she was compelled to leave (ming to the Bettina in of winter and tlee freezing of the Illss sea. All on board the Terra Nova are well. Great disappointment was felt when it became known that the Scott party had been left behind. The Terra Nova is expected to reach Lyttelton on Wed- nesday. LONDON DISAPPOINTED. London, March 31. -The long and im- patiently waited news of Captain Scott's antarctic expedition has at last arrived, but will bring the keenest dieeppoint- ment to the cherished hopes of all Eng - nehmen that the British expedition might after all prove to be the first in the race for the South Pole. On January 3, nearly three weeks at - tor Amundsen hoisted the Norm gian flag at the pole, Scott still had 150 miles to cover before attaining the object of his desires. Since the news of Amundsen' s success- ful attempt, Enblishmen have built great hopes on Captain Scott, emulating, if not surpassing the Norwegian's achieve- ment. It was known that Scott had chosen the longer route, and, as Ainund- sen's experience proved, the more (tali - cult, route, but, presuming that he was favored by the same exceptional weather conditions as Amundsen, few doubted hie SuCCeSs. The despatch from Captain Scott is re- garded as glowing that he travelled much slower than Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shaekelton, and that he must have en- countered unexpected diffieulties, The opinion is expressed that his ponies were a failure. There will be further weary waiting before it can be known whether he suc- ceeded in reaching the Pole. Aceording to some of Captain aleott's intimate friends here however, no surprise need be felt at his decision to spend another winter in the south, this having been within the original scope of his inten- tions. They suggest that he may have learned of Amundsen's exploit, and thereupon determined to attempt a. great journey across the ice barrier to the op- posite side of the continent. A HOT TIME One Murder and 80 Arrests in Illinois Riot. Rock Island, Ill., March 31. --One mur- der, a vicious attack on sluggers, scores of fights and eighty men arrested was flap record of the find day of open saloons at Rook Island since the militia cloaca down the places after the fatal rioting of last Tuesday. The dead men is Ruffle Phoenix, who was shot and 'bits body thrown into an alley. This death is ehrounded in mys- tery, the sluggers debiting he was ehot by the soldiers, while the commanding officer of . the state forces declare his men have not fired a (shot eince they assumed eharge of the city. Walter Rice, of Galesburg, is badly battered ae a result of being taken for Chief of Police Brinn. Rice and Brinn look very much alike and dress almost exactly the same, it is believed Rice was attacked and beaten by a band of slugger's, who thought they were aesault- ing the chief of police. Eighty men, participants in etreet fights last night, many intoxieteted, are in the eity and county jails. Following a free for all fight at the Lincoln club last night, and the inter- ference of soldiers and police, Rufus Phoeeix, chauffeur for Cantain Walter Rosenfield, Who is campaign manager for Laurence Y. Shermaneandidate for governor, was found dead in the alley outeide of the elub shortly after midnight. He bad been shot through the left lung. Two stories are being circulated as to how he met his death, Ono is that in a dispute in a poker game he was sbot end Ids body teken outelde the chtb to avoid publicity. The other is that in the reertimble of club members to get away when the pollee and militia, arrived he was shot down its trying to eseape. Fifteett men found in the Chili when the raid was made are locktel in the polio() station to -night. Coroner Itose will hold a violet invettigation as sone as he finishes; with Oa inquest ou the two riot victim. Sheriff Brauer to.day declared that Phoenix had not been ehot by a Militiaman. CABOOSE ON FIRE. Guelph, Ont., April G. T. It, ea- booee attaehed to a freight train, corn- ing from Elora, was burned Sunday Inorniag. A lamp exploded and toe fire to the interior of the caboose, The en- gineer nutneged to run the train to Guelph diemond, when the eity fire de- pertment wee tailed and prevetted the flat:tee from spreading to the other poet Of the train. The conductor lost all MS pepere anti returns. It I r 4.04.004 Vitecientom te on the deerease ntSenea land and the army of eutaveeeinators ha* ineretteed, of goeleliste lay the Bridgeport, Conn.. = braneh, with the requeet for Haywood's 4)$pn)siou from the International Social- • ist party. The Bridgeport oetelfsta ehargelieywoed with having organized M. dual machinkts' union eompomed largely of men expelled by Soeiniiets of Bridgeport; with having taken eharge of the Lawrenceville textile worker,' strike at the heed of Ole rival organi- sation against the protests of the regu- lar Socia,liste, and with having made al- most a farce of the Socialist day ;tweet- ing in Dridgeport, 2,5, by speaking at a similar meeting held. ,by the rival organization. ; BROTHERS SHOT Two of' Them May Die - Other Shot on Knee. Strange Tragedy in a Mont- real Hotel. Montreal, March al.-Atempting to ayenge a fancied insult to a rady ac- quaintance of their brother, Edgar and Herbert Chapman were shot, probably fatally, in a room in the Savoy Hotel 'at 4 o'cloele this moroing, while Harold Chapman, the brother, lies in the hos. pital with a bullet i.n his knee. Carl Hommans. a pleyer in the or- chestra of the Enchantress company with Kitty Gordon, which finished, its engagement in Montreal last night and left to -day for New York, is held, charg- ed with the shooting, and will plead self-defence. Harold Chapman 'had a' rOom in the Savoy Hotel, and early this morning a• woman celled to see him, saying she had heard he was sick. He was in isis room asleep. The woman found the lock broken and started to mend it, The noise of her hammering awoke Harry Stanford, a player in the alone company as Hemmans, who came out and asked the woman not to make so much noise. She desisted,' and went into Chapman's room and told him of her conversation with Stanford. Stanford in the mean- time went into Hemmans' room for a taiCkbapman came to the door and saw Stanford entering Hemmens' room. He got up and dreeseed and then -sent a mes- sage for his brother, who live near by, saying that he was in trouble. The mes- senger came back with some money, his 'brothers believing he meant financial difficulties. Harold Chapman, then got a hack, &rove up to his brother's resi- denee, where they lived with their mother, and got them out of bed, bring- ing them down to the Savoy Hotel. The three went to Chapman's room and re- moved their coats. Then they went to Hemmans' room, whieh Staaford had been seen oto enter by Harold Chap- man. They broke down the door. Stan- ford had left the room for his own while Harold Chapman had gone out, but Henumens was sitting on the side of the bed. As they entered something broke the electric light, plunging the room into darkness. Shouting out threats, the three broth- ers rushed at Hemmans, whom Harold took to be the man who had had the conversation with the Woman outside his door, and throwing him to the floor, startea to beat him. Hemmans manag- ed to struggle to his suitcase, on the top of which he had left a revolver,- and 'opened fire in the darkness. All three brothers were hit. When the hotel employees arrived on the scene they found the Chapman* helpless encl. Hemmans badly beaten. The shooting was done with a 32 -cali- bre revolver with soft -nosed bullet. F4d- ' gar Chapman has a bullet in his lungs, while Herbert is wounded in the liver and chest. 'Neither are expected to reeover. To -day the ante-mortem statement of the wounded men were taken. Edgar Chapman identified Hemmanse who fa helil by the pave, and offered to shake hands with him, eaying, "You're not to blame at all, old man." The woman in the ease declares that she did not tell Chapman that Sten - ford' words were diseourteoes, merely saying that he had ftsked her not to make so much noise. Whitt story Harold Chapmen meld have, told his brothers. who both have stood reautatione as steadyworkers at their trade as painters, to get them out of beet at dead of night to make an assault on a 'nail they had never seeneie unknown as yet. Harold Chapman win be 'remembered as one of the ushers at the Orpbeum WhO was present ta the card game last November when Charles Rose shot and killed Bob Fitzsimmons, the ticket taker, (luring a quarrel over a bet. 1 FATAL SHOCK Derr:ck Came in Contact With Live Wire. Newmarket, March George MeTavieh was eleetrocatte.1 and two Other men seriouely burned when the Mat of a erane they were testing earee in •contaet with the lugit ten- sion wires earrying Niagara power to the transformer citation heie. ate - !revisit, who Wng foreman for taleeidy & Luseby, stone Petters, WAS with the other men raleing the grin of the trate under tat laireS When it towhee] - the wire, and, eei he WAS 1101di»S., She - hook at the tea of the cable, he re. eeived the tull force of the shook. '1 he - other men Were working the crank and coeld not let go. Their hamia were badly Verna r‘aleTityleh WW1 telt:urea older by another man peehing the erane away from the wire with it plank. Ile fell bleeding to the groun I, but death wee inetantaneous, DIDN'T STRIKE. Detroit, April lee -The threatened gen- end strike of Grand Trunk Railway twill:Aimee, to bake effeet to -day, beeauee the eomparty Wined an order dispieneittsa vitit tha tided Man On 4.triteh 0451'04 failed tfi materialize, The emptily is ettill to have withdrawn the order tout- Porarily. Husband Should, Not Go Shopping With Wife. Plan Knows Nothing of Feminine Furnishings, Chicago, IllsMarch 30.-ellenee- forth, when "friend wife" tries to per: Nude. huohy to take en afternoon off and help her pick out a dress or a hat it will not be neeeseary for him to re- sort te the ancient "tall" about the impossibility of getting away from the office. All he will have to (to is to produce it certified dopy of tee jwUctal opinion relating to such ca$Q8 48 handed down to -day by Judge Newcomer. Here it "Huebanda only make trouble when they go with their wives to aasist in the selection of dresses and other fens inine furnishings, No man knows any. thing about a woman's dress, lie has no bkisincea going shopping with a wo- man. He's in the way and should epens\ his time in a more profitable sursuit, if a woman lets a man pick her clothes she must be content if she looks like a frump. I say to 401 husbands, never help your wife ehop." The hueband later took the . dress back and suggested alterations, "Yes, and made matters • worse," interposed the judge. Further alterations were made, but this time, Mrs. Berman declared in hey testimony, the dress was too small in- etead of too large. She had other faulta. to find with it as well, namely: "The kimona sleeves were botched." "Tie V-baek came down too low." in support of these assertions she held up the dress for the .iis3pection of the court. The judge teemed perplexed and decided the affair Was too complis- eated to pass upon without eareftil de- liberation. He will coma the latest fashion plates, the law books and the "Dress- makers' Guide." A WONDER Electricity Aid to Growth 40 of School Children. Stockholm, Sweden, March 814 -It is announced that Prof. Sventie-Ar- rhenius, the noted physicist, has com- pleted in this city a series of experi- ments proving that electricity is a marvelous aid to the physical and mental growth of school children. The experiments were made under conditions of much interest. Two groups of 50 children of practically similar physique, age and mentality, were placed in two rooms exactly alike except that in the walls of one of the rooms were concealed wire carrying continuously high frequency, alternating electrical currents on a system perfeetee by the French scien- ti3t, Dr. clarersonval. Neither the teachers nor the pupils knew that they were expoped to this influence, which made the schoolroom a strong, magnetic field. At the end of six Months the elec- trically ,magnetised children. and grown on an average of 51 millimetres (two inches) and the unenagnetized 32 millimetres (1.16 inches), making 20 the standard of perfection, the magnetized children. reached in their studies an average of 18.4, while 15 attained a perfect mark. The un - magnetized children reached au aver- age of 15, onlyk nine attaining perfect marks, e -e-41 STOPPED THEM Suspected ofBeingin White Slave Traffic. Windsor, Ont., alarc 31. -In the arrest here this afternoon of Tofik Leon, it Syrian, who says he Is a barber, and `lives in Toronto, the police believe they may have uncover- ed one of the many "underground" routes used in the white slave traf- fic between Canada and the United States. Immigration Inspector Ma- son, who made the arreste found Dorothy Cadieux, also of Toronto, in company With the Syrian, and brought both to police headquarters here for a .further investigation, The girl claims to be 17 year ola, but with dresses oniy to her shoe tops looks at least three years younger, She is a Freneh-Canadiart nationality and pretty. According to Dorothy's etory, she is an orphan, and up to tare days ago had been employed by a family named Clever, at No. 14 Soho street, as a. nurse girl. She met Leon, she says, and he induced her after only a brief acquaintance to accompany him to Detroit, where he promised to marry her. The eottple came itt over the Canadian Pacific Railroad front Toronto this afternoon, but were stop- ped by the American officers and sent back to Windsor as "ttedesir- ables." The Detroit officers say they are convinced Leon was bring- ing the girl into the United States for immoral purposes. 0 KILLED SISTER Other Woman Slipped and Escaped Death. i POSTAGE STAMPS The Dufferin Co. Inspector Charged With Forgery. Orangeville, Mara, 31,-Tite Court House was crowded yesterday when five charges of forgery against form- er Public Behool Inspeetor Nathaniel Gordon were investigated before Police Magistrate Patkulo, Mr. Cor- don had been inspector since the formation of the county of Dufferin, Borne thirty years ago, until the November session of the County Council, when he was suspended for alleged taring with several vouehers in cz..nnevtion with the pur. cb.ase of postage stamps. The in. spector vas disminfled 10,, the County Council at toe January session fol. lowing, Warden Cornelius testified that de- fendant had produced three receipts for stamps, two for four dollars each, and one for two dollars; and fifty cents, Tho Warden had told defen- dant the vouchers had been raised, the four -dollar ones from one dollar and the two dollar and a half one from fifty cents, This, witness said,. the defendant admitted claiming that he had purchased other stamps, which • he had used in his office, and altered. the vouchers to show his actual outlay, Chieopte, rass., April 1. -An aeeldeet was all that saved Mrs. Julia R. Malt from being instantly kilted when an ex- prope trent overtook her and and tier - sister, Itatherine Conzig, on a trestle - here last night. Vie two women were running to get away from the train when, Airs. Vrak sttunbled and fell a few yards ahead of the engine. She niipped betueen the timbers of the trestle to an abutment below, while the lovomotive overtook and killed her elster. J.,,1444 A CLEVER DOG. Loilt1011, Ont., April 1 remarkable demonstration of canine limehtg isetinet reaurred here on Sunday, when n. nine, months -old fox terrier Wined up at ita 'miter home in this eitv, the residence of a prominent eitizen. The dog had been given to friends in Windsor three weeks ago, old ehortly afterwards dis- appeared. Ilit the most direst way the iistanes is one hundred and ton miles. Seeing falsely is worse than blindness, Red spestkinre falsely than vilentee---I BuSkin. A WIRELESS JOKE April Fool Great Airship Building in New York. • New York, April 1.-A printed state- ment sent broadcast aboal; the financial district to -day makes the following an- nouncement regardinfg the plane of the "International Wirelese Airship Com- pany": "The company bas purchased a large plot on lower Broadway, on which Is will at once build a reinforced concrete building of one hundred storeys, which will be 1,475 feet in height, which, with a tower for a wireless airship station, will be twice as high. as any 'building now in the world. "The roof of this structure will be used. exclusively for a landing station for the airships, which will make week- ly sailings direct to London, the County council there having leased to the com- pany the entire roof space of their new building on the Thames, opposite the Houses of Parliament. The trip will be nutde in about thirty-six hours., "The entire project is being financed here by the money trust in connection with the Bank of England." The peculiar name of the company's president, Mr. Bypell, and the dating of the announcement on April 1, led most of those who received the eireulars to regard them the first of the financial dtiosatrieet's series of annual April first ixs. LADY WARWICK Explains Why She Quit and Went Home. London, April 1, ---The Countess of Warwick, who arrived at Plymouth to -day on the steamship Olympic from New York, was met on her arrival here by her husband, who greeted her very affectionately. The Countess told a re- porter that she knows now what lectur- ing in America means, and she will not attempt to go there on any such mission again. She would like to return to 'Am- erica. for pleasure and to stody the peo- ple and the conditions of the social side of life, which she had no opportunity to- do while on the lecture tour. The Countess is in perfect health, and deelares that her only reason for aban- doning the lecture tour was her inabil- ity tb stand the travelling at night. She said: "The Americans are delightful. I made many friends through the lectures, and the people treated me everywhere with the greatest hospitality. They are alarming, but the travelling was too much for a woman oi my age. • Jusj. cone trast the easy, short journeys on Eng- lishrailways with the long distances 111 America. It was more than I email be expected to face. I had booked to go right through the west, but I should have broken down if I had attempted it. "I have been to America for pleasure. not profit," said the Countess. "It would be absurd to say that my lee.- ture were not a financial success. All my expectations severe exceeded, but if I disappointed any audiences by not glee ingmy experiences and reminiscences of society, I am glad of it. I could not, and would not, give my friends away Other lectures must be found for that purpose." LOST HIS HEAD Wealthy Farmer Decapi. ta,ted by Circular Saw. Canandaigua, Des'patelt Frederlek Johnson, 87, a wealthy farmer, residing near Rushville, was decapitated late yes- terday by a circular saw under conditions that Indicate suicide. Jeharsn was assisting tits brother Frank, anti et:liars, at the latter's place with a portable saw. The engine went bad, aria, without stepping it, tne men at- tempted to fiX it, leaving Fred near the saw, A tow nonetes tater an unusual sound coining troto the direetioft of the sow at- tracted their attention, and they looked up in time to see Johnson's head roll off tne reeding beard. The saw Severed his bead as completely as could have been (10710 With surgeon's inetrunrientS. It also cut off the top of his left shoulder lalade. Johnson had been Mciantholy for some One, and heal, it is mid, suicidal tenden- cies. Y/6 had recently returned from an institution itt whith he )ia.t1 reeeived treat - Men t. Johnsen is survived by Ids wife and two elt4laren, his brother and father. CHALMERS ACQUITTED. St. Catharines despateh: Fred .Clottn- bete, a, local piano agent, was to -day ite- quitted by Judge Comae of a charge brought ageing him by Officer Gunton, of the Children's Aid Society, on behalf of Daisy Howard, a lifteen-year-old ward of the society. The decision was baSed on the ease of Queen vs. "Valley, wherein it was held that the untorroborated Pvi- doriet of the girl is insuffieient to eon. viet. Crown Attorney Brennan Wag; grante4 a stated case for the Court of Appeal, with it View to ReOtiling att. auling as to whether the decision In the Valley ease la sound, practical la tv. apapoope*awaa•aaa.••***0.6,•••••*"•000.0•00,1•wa.a*afro040,., LOST HIS HAND Two Montrealers Hurt Fool- ing With Dynamite. Montreal, Aphil L. -Fooling with dynamite cape led to Ernest Vallee, of Duverney street, losing his left hand, and Joseph MeDonald getting his jawi bone broken yesterday la a little shanty as a boathouse on Lasalle road. The explosion oecurred just 415 n aap. ids ear was passing and the motorman stopped and attended to 'Vallee's Nur,. les, binding up his wrist and arm with n. handkerchief, and taking him to Ver. dun, where he with his companion, walk, ed to the office of Dr, Chabot, who cont. pleted the dressing and. called an antbu. lame. At Notre Dame Hospital it was found necessary to amputate Valle's arm at the wrist. Ilie companion's injuries were slight. • Thii boat house at Which the aeeident ocetured Was Set on fire and burned down before the car reaehed it on its return journey. BUY NO HATS Unique Boycott Urged by a Suffragette. London, April 1. ---At a meeting of the suffragettes held to -night in pro- test against what the speaker described as their "base betrayal by the House of Commons," Mrs. Despard, who Was sen- tenced to prison in 1909, and was ,onee arrested for picketing Premier Asqeities house, said the time had arrived ler the militant suffragettes to adopt more ef- fective methods to gain their desires. She urged, in effect, a boycott. She said the women should not buy hats, which would hurt the tradesmen worse tban window -smashing. declared that they should not go to seaside resorts repre- sented in Parliament by men of anti - suffragist tendencies, aed should not sal). scribe funds to churches or institutions or invest their money in England. THE RICHELIEU. ••••••••••••• Its Navigation Merger Deal Now Completed. •••••••••••••••••••• MontYeal, April 1 -Representa- tives of the big Richelieu & Ontario Navigation merger deal, under the chairmanship of Sir Rodolphe Forget, M.P., were in session to -day in com- pleting details itt the merger scheme. Previous to the conference this morn- ing Sir Rodolphe Forget admitted to the Canadian Press that all friction had been removed and that the in- terests concerned have finally come to a mutual agreement. The merger will include beside the Richelieu & Ontario Co., the Northern Navigation Co. and the Inland Navigation fleet, later to be followed by the addition of the Niagara Company and sever- al other smaller navigation interests doing business on the great lakes. FOUND DEAD Lived LiCe of Sacrifice for Grandchildren. Toronto Desputch-Living .a life of self-sacrifice, that the homeless daugh- ters of his son might be kept in comfort, was the pitiful tale laid hare by the find- ing of the body yesterday of James Parkes in an old shack at Moore Lake. For many years the figure of the old man. ,who came front Aberdeenshire. Scetland, many years ago, and who was a former gardened for Lord Aberdeen, was familiar in the north end of the city, About three weeks ago he told his neigh - burs that he was going east to do some 'Pruning, and when he was seen no more and postcards for him arrived asking why he had not come, the county con- stable and Dr. M. l‘f, Crawford broke in- to the shack and found his body. It appears that Parkes had a son who was killed in Chicago a few years ago, lei.ving three Mite girls. The aged grandfather placed them in a home. and by hard work and privation. was able to Provide for them. TOWER FELL Wireless Skeleton Blown Down in Germany. Nation, Germany, April 1.-A ter - tittle storm caused the eon/Lose this morning of the great -skeleton tower, 656 feet high, belonging to the German wire- less statin here. There were no casu- alties. The tower was reeently doubled in height and Apart from the Eiffel tow- er in Paris was the highest steel skele- ton tower in the wprld. A nesv plant was recently provided at the station by means of which it was expected that comninnication would be made by the stations in America. 4.41. THIRD SET OF TEETH. Boston, April 1. -The getting of her third set of teeth was responsible for the death of Mrs. Margaret Newman, 85 years, of Chelsea, yesterday. Mrs. Newman had been ill for several daee and suffered intense aptly. Less than a week ago she was takett with severe pains in the jaws and face and exemin- ation by a doctor revealed the fact that several back molars were cutting through the gums. 4 • • THE POPE ALL RIGHT. Rome April le -The reports vatic+ have been Pat in etreulation again that the Pope is ill were shown to be un- founded this morning, when he reeetved Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, reetne of the Ameriean Conege in ROMej Witt) lilthdea to him the "Peter's pence ;rote the Dioeette of Newark, end 'Oslo preeeeted it lumber of visitors. The Pontiff ap- peared during the audieneeto be in meal condition of health. CANNERY FOR THE ARCTIC. Seattle, Wash., April 1.-A power schooner, which hat btee f:tted out here for a eruise in Wilting Sea and the Are - tie Ocean, will take a ealmort eantrery plant to ltotvellue Sound, on the Arette. This will he the first aftlinen Winer 04 the Aretie ()emit The telt are seitl to be of better quality than those taught Maher smith, but the difficulties of teething the Arctic liVetit are vete* great, and the season is $114t,